It has been two and a half years now since the MIF first sat at the table with Starbucks, Keurig Green Mountain and Farmers Brothers to discuss the future of coffee in Latin America. Back in November of 2014, when the MIF convened a meeting with these key global players in the coffee industry, it wanted to get feedback and strategic advice on how to move forward with more critical programs that would support small coffee farmers and their cooperatives. The conversation ended up being a much more robust discussion on how to leverage each other’s strengths and resources to create a platform that would implement region wide coffee initiatives, to achieve high levels of scale and impact.

Sembrador (“sower/planter” in English) is Chile’s first Venture Capital (VC) Fund Manager targeting investments solely in the agricultural sector. To date, Sembrador has raised nearly US$ 80M for three funds, of which two the MIF is an investor (Agrodesarrollo and Victus).

At the 3rd annual 2017 Winter Innovation Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, from January 25–27, I had the opportunity to interact with many of the leading thinkers, policymakers, funders, nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, and academics from around the globe. Key themes included social impact investment, the role of data and evidence, communications, public-private partnerships, impact measurement, and research-based best practices in social services.

martes, 21 de febrero de 2017/Author: David Bloomgarden/Number of views (6384)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: No rating